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A guard at a prison in Mexico has been sentenced to nearly four years in a U.S. federal prison for trying to smuggle gun parts into Mexico.Abraham Molina Barron of Hermosillo was caught with unfinished parts for 50 AR-15 rifles last September. They were found stashed in the door panels of the car the 38-year-old was driving during an inspection at the border crossing in Nogales, Ariz.Molina admitted he put the parts in the car and was trying to smuggle them into Mexico.He pleaded guilty in February to attempting to export defense articles and was sentenced last week to 46 months in prison. The U.S. Attorney for Arizona says a judge rejected his argument that he was forced to smuggle the gun parts.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Sector seized approximately 150 pounds of marijuana and arrested three suspected drug smugglers.

According to Robert Lowry of the Yuma Sector Communications Division, agents assigned to Wellton Station had been tracking footprints of suspected illegal crossers near Painted Rock Road, along Interstate 8 west of Gila Bend, for about an hour when they came up on three individuals carrying marijuana in their backpacks.

Lowry said agents determined that the subjects were all illegally in the United States and took them into custody. All three face prosecution. The marijuana, which had an estimated street value of $76,000, was seized.

To report suspicious activity, call the Yuma Sector Border Patrol toll-free at 1-866-999-8727.James Gilbert can be reached at jgilbert@yumasun.com or 539-6854.

Cuernavaca, Morelos (SUN)Juan Miguel Alcántara Soria, executive secretary of the National System of Public Security, said Jalisco, State of Mexico City and SLP are unable to evaluate their police.

The executive secretary of the National System of Public Security, Juan Miguel Alcántara Soria, reported that 1,800 of the two police corporations, 400 municipalities in the country or pay fair wages, or train, and professionalized, adequately or transform their police patrols and that puts them at grave vulnerability to crime prevention and combating organized crime.

The executive secretary Morelos announced an initial investment of 30 million pesos to be used to create Creditable State Police is aiming to move towards the sole command of the police forces.

At a press conference with Governor Marco Adame Castillo, Alcántara Soria said there are organizations like Jalisco, Estado de Mexico, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi and Mexico City has no ability to evaluate your personal police and control tests confidence and meet the goal of completion in 2013."With the ability can take 12 to 13 years," said the federal official.

He said that the two thousand 400 municipalities, 400 of them do not have any police scheme, ie, progress toward the police are only zero. Special mention was the state of Yucatan has virtually zero progress in the certification of its police patrols.

Alcántara Soria also noted that the total universe of police of the country, so far 1,200 personnel have been separated or discharged for their alleged links to organized crime.

Morelos reported that adds to the 10 entities that meet international standards of the UN as having 2.8 officers per thousand population, to deliver the first 30 to 100 million pesos in a bipartisan input.

With these resources is to create tactical units, analysis and operation with the police reaction and academic profiles and high school graduate minimum.

He also stressed that Secretary of Defense support in the formation of reaction units and operation and with the Merida Initiative SWAT- type units will be formed with U.S. support. The members of these special units will be submitted every two years to process validation of reliability.

He stressed that the state of Morelos covers the requirements for receiving the first administration especially in the progress of control and confidence of his staff officers, as he said has assessed 61 percent of 3,651 troopers.

MEXICO CITY, May 16 .- The kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who went from poverty to become one of the world's richest men, is the first Mexican empire created by a drug crime, said today British writer Malcolm Beith.

"The Sinaloa cartel, according to intelligence agencies, is a transnational company, with links throughout the world, and its main markets are the U.S. and Eastern Europe now," he said in an interview with Efe Beith, author of "The Finally narco "(Ediciones B, 2011).

The organization of the Mexican Pacific coast began to make connections with Colombian drug traffickers, but soon began to spread to most Latin American countries and jumped from there to Africa, Europe and Asia.

According to intelligence agencies, that group a presence in several countries of Eastern Europe and Africa. "It has links with the Mafia, but has not proven to have with the Japanese Yakuza," said the journalist.

"The poster was using its key operations centers, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, to establish a capital base for their assets," Beith said.

In addition, he said, has great links with Asian nations such as China, Thailand and Vietnam, where he obtained, by means of large companies, the necessary chemicals to produce amphetamines.

Beith account in "The Last narco" how "Shorty" was captured in 1993 in Guatemala and in 2001 he escaped the high security prison in Puente Grande, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, to retake the reins of his organization, which became the most powerful of Mexico and made its international expansion.

Joaquin Guzman Loera Archivaldo is one of the most wanted criminals in Mexico and the United States and is on the list of the richest in the world compiled by Forbes magazine, which estimated his fortune at about one billion dollars.

"Shorty" was born in 1957 in La Tuna, a village of 200 inhabitants located in the municipality of Bardiraguato, in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.

"The young Chapo wanted out of there, his father beat him frequently and as a teenager he ran away from home and went to live with his grandfather," says Beith in the book, noting that he worked day and night in the field and "had no childhood of any kind."

The former editor of Newsweek, who visited three times Badiraguato, considered the birthplace of drug trade, seeking traces of "El Chapo", addresses in his work the origin, growth and the near extinction of major groups of drug traffickers.

Tells how Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, founder of drug trafficking in Mexico, divided the territory between several groups: Tijuana for the Arellano Felix brothers, Ciudad Juárez to the Carrillo Fuentes and Sinaloa for "Shorty."

Beith tells of the rise of "Shorty" and how he became one of the largest introducers of drugs into the U.S. by various means, including numerous tunnels.

Although "El Chapo" is the most wanted in Mexico, the writer denied that the United States to focus its efforts to locate him because for them there is a serious risk and is not a terrorist as Osama bin Laden was.

In addition, his capture does not mean the end of the trafficker, as the drug networks remain due to the existence of a large U.S. market, where over 12% of the population are consumers who spend annually some 65,000 million dollars in drugs, he said.

In the U.S. there are a million gang members engaged in drug distribution, so that country is unthinkable for a "war" directly, as released in Mexico by President Felipe Calderon in December 2006 Beith said.

According to estimates by the U.S. Justice Department, drug cartels generated revenues that are among the 19,000 and 40,000 million dollars.